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Credit ratings agency Moody’s issued a negative outlook on U.S. nonprofit hospitals in 2015, as smaller hospitals continue to weaken amid changes to the industry.

Record low healthcare inflation does not seem to be trickling down to average middle income consumers with work-based insurance. If anything, more Americans may be questioning the value of their employer health plans amid wage stagnation.

Connecticut's state hospitals saw their profit from operations fall by about 35 percent in fiscal 2013, a new report shows, while income from non-operational means increased by the same amount.

Nearly 9 percent of the births covered by Medicaid -- or about 160,000 each year -- were elective deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation, which lead to worse health outcomes for mothers and children and higher costs, according to a study published Monday.

No deadline is ever really certain. The federal government is giving health insurers more time to submit data for the risk-sharing programs that many market reforms are depending on.

The relationship between a Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Financial Officer can become adversarial when external pressures are calling for change to healthcare's economic model. But a partnership between the two can become the foundation for moving forward in a challenging environment.

In a way that is deeply changing federal contracting, growth opportunities from the government have increasingly come not from war but from healing.

While some evidence suggests medical cost ratio mandates are helping make healthcare more affordable, there are still some long-term doubts. 

Amid an intense debate about the cost and value of drugs, a big payer and a big pharma company are promising to comb through their collective evidence and deliver new knowledge that may improve patient outcomes.

Two years ago General Dynamics, one of the biggest federal contractors, reported a quarterly loss of $2 billion. An "eye-watering" result, one analyst called it.